Can breastfeeding help in birth control?

SURELY, it is true. Breastfeeding can be accepted as a natural birtth control method. While the mother feeds her child with breastfeeding, it acts like a natural contraception. It is the time given by the nature to have some time of gap between babies. The method of birth control through breastfeeding is known as Lactational Amenorrhea Method (LAM). The doctor says that it is a dependable way of stopping your fertility to take care of your baby completely. Lactational Amenorrhea Method (LAM) works in such a way that while you breast feeding your baby, a hormone is produced in large amount by your body, the hormone is called as prolactin. This hormone induces the production of milk in you to feed your baby.

At the same this hormone also acts as a fertility suppressant which blocks the release of the hormones responsible for ovulation in your body. Os it is clear that the production of prolactin hormone stops your menstrual cycle temporally which in turn suspend the production of ovum and acts as a birth control at that stage. The more you feed your baby and the more smartly your infant suckles decides the duration of Lactational Amenorrhea Method of birth control.